There’s always a reason why one can’t/won’t make good art.
But it’s not about the industry, it’s about common patterns of frustration at its core.
This is all GAS navel gazing and pertinent to the frustration/desire feedback loop with rants seeking to justify the through pattern over making music.
There will never be perfect instruments, it is counterproductive to creation to focus on how there are no perfect instruments.
What about game tech? When I look at the PS5 and what’s released so far I’m extremely disappointed. So much power and hardly anything that pushes it. My favourite company Naughty Dog so far released nothing new for the PS5. But also the amount of bugs that needs to be fixed after a release has become the norm. It just sucks period. Back in the days there were no updates. A game just worked or you were screwed.
If I look at history in tech and how much developers did with the little power in chips they got compared to what’s possible now I do think something went very wrong. Most feels rushed.
“Everything sucks these days” is older than written language.
The older you get the more you learn that’s true in many ways.
What is available now is a massive leap forward compared to what was available 30 years ago. Perhaps if one has a shorter time horizon for “the past” it might not look like it, but it is also hard to see the future while it is still happening.
Machine Learning will doubtless be a forever tool for most creative pursuits going forward, including music, but we are still figuring out exactly what that will look like.
Look at other arenas: we haven’t markedly improved the coffee maker in that span of time, despite the ability to design a machine that automatically adjusts for temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
The bicycle hasn’t improved overmuch for the last 15 years (and in the eyes of some, not for the last 30).
We have easily reached the point where technical limitations are no longer an impediment to creating music - and as most have noted a computer is that apex device.
Or one becomes calcified and less aware of the world around them. The world loses its magic and it’s harder to reconnect with novelty and fun without drifting into magical thinking over genuine connection.
Ultimately technical concerns and product designs are not the underlying dissatisfaction.
What makes you think so? You decided that the topic I initiated is not about the industry, but about me? So saying “look this little thing had 16 tracks 20 years ago and now we seem to be hoping for 8 in some cases” is an illegitimate thought or something? One I shouldn’t have, and certainly not share under any circumstances?
I’m not invalidating the emotion, just saying this lack of magic in your musical life isn’t about hardware design.
Chasing that feeling externally, there be dragons and antipatterns.
I think you have a good point here, combined with the fact that the people who do have those kind of skills can make way way more money outside of the music tech field.
They don’t even password protect pacemakers. The hell am I putting a network of insecure bots in my blood.
What lack of magic? Saying I could do with a few more tracks on the M:C like thousands of people have?
Currently viral on Elektronauts…
Focusing on what tools aren’t over what is?
We all understand your state of mind.
Looooool whatever I make in ableton does sound similar to what I make with hardware. I don’t think it matters just the UI is different.
RIP Popcorn Sutton
GAS venting and needing validation over frustrations with tools not existing is the definition of a self help problem.
Rationalizations for why one isn’t making music is seeking community in frustrations, and that stuff needs to be noted, maybe not for your learning so much as it just becomes a thing in online communities.
We all have complaints about what we have, but I’d rather wrap my brain around my tools than hunt any more for what works for my end.
Do you have a bunch of other hobbies? There are always frustrations with cameras, I have issues getting the perfect artistic vision out with visual art too, but it’s not my paints either.
I was just leaving but if I can ask, what makes you think I don’t make music? This is getting a bit more fascinating than I thought.
the ep133 and ep1320 have 48 tracks per project and all people yell about is the 64mb, the designers cant win!
My BT headphones & speakers constantly disconnect and reconnect. No way would I use BT for MIDI.